Books Quote by Edwidge Danticat

I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate someone or…

— Lynne Tillman

Reading can be dangerous.

— Diane Setterfield

The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above…

— James Joyce

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote…

— Truman Capote

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt